We've also updated a few cards that were still using outdated images from patch 1.8. We performed a full data reimport yesterday, but it wasn't worth it because Riot didn't have updated set1 and set2 data on their API until now (or much later yesterday).
Whoa! It's been something crazy like 8 months since we removed decks from the homepage of Out of Cards. Today, that changes.
New Features
Homepage Decks Widget
Quite possibly the most complicated system we have on the site so far.
Here's how it works:
The current "game" that you have active is what decks will display by default.
Decks will show, by default, "Week" timeframe and "Hot" sorting with only decks that include a written guide.
Here's the planned update for Friday:
Adding the ability to customize your defaults.
Did you look at some Runeterra news but you only want to see Hearthstone decks? No problem.
Do you want to default to Hearthstone Wild Paladin decks? You go!
All the sorting options available now will be able to be saved as your own preferences.
Dev Notes
I wanted a more visual approach with icons for Classes and Regions for their respective games, but the interesting issues with cross-platform and cross-device features were prohibitive. Also, Demon Hunter can rot in hell for having such a long name that is tough to design around. I believe it looks cleaner without them all out in the open, at the sacrifice of extra clicks if you want to quickly check multiple classes/regions out. This might be updated in the future to make class selections easier.
And on the note of class selections, I already know a request is going to be written somewhere that asks we allow you to customize the filters with something such as "Paladin and Druid decks". This might be a feature enhancement down the line. I'm not making any promises right now though.
Changes
Hearthstone
Collection Manager now has a "bulk remove" button.
Hit save after using bulk remove to update your collection on the site.
This is an easy way to reset your collection back to square one, or reverse an accidental "bulk adds".
Runeterra
Collection Manager now has a "bulk remove" button.
Hit save after using bulk remove to update your collection on the site.
This is an easy way to reset your collection back to square one, or reverse an accidental "bulk adds".
Bug Fixes
Runeterra
Fixed LoR deck codes not generating codes when Targon cards were present.
Corrected dropdowns available in the Collection Manager.
Fixed an issue where the Collection Manager wouldn't let you remove single copies of a card.
Upcoming
Next Update: Filtering by game for recent forum threads.
Early September: MTG Arena Database and Decks support
If it wasn't for Hearthstone and Runeterra being so active this month, it would have arrived.
I'm gonna sneak something in later for this. I was trying to get it out before the morning deploy but got caught fixing a couple of critical bugs instead.
That's a real cool feature, thanks a lot! Also for letting us know your thought process. The customer service on this page is insane. As a certified quality manager, that warms my heart.
I did say when we launched I always wanted my transparency with stuff =D
My only regret is that we don't talk more about upcoming stuff. Sometimes stuff just isn't worth talking about if its too far out because it would let competitors know what we're thinking. I'd rather anyone that wanted to lift features from here instead have to be reactionary. Though, no one has made an attempt at that yet over the past year so that's funny :P
Great work, thanks for your dedication! I'll use the opportunity to request a quality of life feature. I really like the concept of the portals. Would it be possible to expand this feature to the point where users could permanently choose one of them in account management?
It's a very interesting point of discussion. The original idea is we were going to let everyone decide what they would see on the homepage as far as the news went. Over time though, I no longer thought that was the best solution and instead provided the portals that we now have. The way I've seen it, having the portals be dedicated places gives people a more tailored experience for each title and they have more benefits by visiting them individually if you so choose. It is easy for people to update their browser bookmark for the site so they can visit the portal over the homepage.
Allowing for a swap-out also sucks because if someone happens to follow two games instead of one, they wouldn't have a special homepage option available to them.
Now, some of that is a bit dated though and I'll explain why!
We've got a feature dropping either late tonight or tomorrow which brings back decks to the homepage. Our first iteration of this was exactly what we see on the Hearthstone portal, but it was silly to have Hearthstone decks be the only thing featured on the homepage. The new widget has some customization to it which will allow you to select a default game and even a default sort so that you will always see what you want when loading up the homepage. A good example of this would be for Wild Hearthstone players. If you want to only see Wild Hearthstone decks on the homepage when you visit, this will be exactly what you're going to see. You'll also always have the ability to view the other stuff by using the available sorts, but your default preference will be saved.
This might get extended to news posts.
The decks part of it wasn't very complicated to figure out and make performant. With news being simpler than decks, the ability to customize which games get displayed on the homepage news feed for any one person isn't a difficult extension. I do dislike that you lose some potential overlap. Maybe one day Riot makes a really cool Runeterra announcement that could entice a player that is only interested in Hearthstone, but has been having a negative time recently, but it won't be able to because they decided they only wanted to see Hearthstone news. One workaround I had considered for this problem is we'll inject major announcements (flagging articles them as such) into the homepage feed no matter what, but this would only be confusing to people.
I see pros and cons on both sides of it. Ultimately though, I do think leaving the choice in the hands of everyone is a good idea. You're all smart enough to decide what you want to see and on the very tiny chance you visit the homepage and don't get to see that Wizards is giving everyone a bunch of free stuff because you only want to see Hearthstone content, that was that person's choice to make.
No ETA on news on the homepage changes, but decks are arriving very soon.
What don't you like about the current arena reward structure?
I believe the addition of experience which contributes to earnings in the Battle Pass might make it feel better without changing the actual structure of the Arena Rewards, though I'd love to know what you think would make Arena itself better.
Added a link to our Merch store on the navigation.
Avatars now get resized to a maximum of 180px by 180px.
If your avatar isn't a square, it's going to be forced into being one.
Unfortunately, we no longer support animated gif avatars because of this. They may make a return in the future.
Listings on the site now tell you how many results were returned.
Admittedly, this needs to look a little bit better since its very plain, but its functional!
Made an update to our RSS feeds to assist readers in finding our thumbnail images.
Bug Fixes
Hearthstone
Fixed an issue with collection calculations displaying too many missing stars on deck pages.
Removed note about how the collection manager can't be automated and replaced it with a link to the HDT plugin.
Fixed a missing Hearthstone breadcrumb on Tavern Brawl pages.
Fixed collections not correctly syncing. (This has been fixed for over 2 weeks)
General
Fixed an issue where some users were getting Premium access without paying for it.
Polls no longer generate client-side errors if you are not logged in.
Achievement triggers no longer generate client-side errors if you are not logged in.
Regrets
Runeterra
We didn't get out voting and discussion site rewards for the Call of the Mountain reveal season.
There was a bit too much going on to get this out. Our site migration took much longer than originally expected which pushed this back until the point it no longer really matters.
Yeah, he was disappointingly super late. We've now got it in our post (was AFK making and eating breakfast so I wasn't around when he finally got to uploading it)
I don't think it's fair to require "infinite" value from the Battle Pass. If the Gold progression is going to be the same as before, these packs are just icing on the cake and are definitely not the target of the players who grind out full bundles worth of gold each set. If they were to replace them with more Gold, there's less chance you're going to buy something.
At the end of the day, Hearthstone does need to sell stuff to us to remain profitable. I'd be completely on the side of "packs suck" if it wasn't for their clear messaging that nothing is changing to hurt the Gold income for F2P players. Ben Lee even said he personally made 5K gold per set and he expects to make the exact same without changing how much he played.
Yup! We're actually going to be pushing that out this afternoon along with customization options for the decks widget =D
Ah, damn. I was looking on his blog to see if there was anything there for this and clearly missed this. Thanks!
We've also updated a few cards that were still using outdated images from patch 1.8. We performed a full data reimport yesterday, but it wasn't worth it because Riot didn't have updated set1 and set2 data on their API until now (or much later yesterday).
Shoulda checked before spending that time lol.
Whoa! It's been something crazy like 8 months since we removed decks from the homepage of Out of Cards. Today, that changes.
New Features
Homepage Decks Widget
Changes
Hearthstone
Runeterra
Bug Fixes
Runeterra
Upcoming
Heya, this should be resolved as of yesterday. Let me know if you see any additional issues!
Got our first deploy of the day out. I am expecting another one this afternoon / evening.
Changes
Runeterra
Bug Fixes
Runeterra
General
I'm gonna sneak something in later for this. I was trying to get it out before the morning deploy but got caught fixing a couple of critical bugs instead.
I did say when we launched I always wanted my transparency with stuff =D
My only regret is that we don't talk more about upcoming stuff. Sometimes stuff just isn't worth talking about if its too far out because it would let competitors know what we're thinking. I'd rather anyone that wanted to lift features from here instead have to be reactionary. Though, no one has made an attempt at that yet over the past year so that's funny :P
I didn't say stuff enough, so, stuff.
It's a very interesting point of discussion. The original idea is we were going to let everyone decide what they would see on the homepage as far as the news went. Over time though, I no longer thought that was the best solution and instead provided the portals that we now have. The way I've seen it, having the portals be dedicated places gives people a more tailored experience for each title and they have more benefits by visiting them individually if you so choose. It is easy for people to update their browser bookmark for the site so they can visit the portal over the homepage.
Allowing for a swap-out also sucks because if someone happens to follow two games instead of one, they wouldn't have a special homepage option available to them.
Now, some of that is a bit dated though and I'll explain why!
We've got a feature dropping either late tonight or tomorrow which brings back decks to the homepage. Our first iteration of this was exactly what we see on the Hearthstone portal, but it was silly to have Hearthstone decks be the only thing featured on the homepage. The new widget has some customization to it which will allow you to select a default game and even a default sort so that you will always see what you want when loading up the homepage. A good example of this would be for Wild Hearthstone players. If you want to only see Wild Hearthstone decks on the homepage when you visit, this will be exactly what you're going to see. You'll also always have the ability to view the other stuff by using the available sorts, but your default preference will be saved.
This might get extended to news posts.
The decks part of it wasn't very complicated to figure out and make performant. With news being simpler than decks, the ability to customize which games get displayed on the homepage news feed for any one person isn't a difficult extension. I do dislike that you lose some potential overlap. Maybe one day Riot makes a really cool Runeterra announcement that could entice a player that is only interested in Hearthstone, but has been having a negative time recently, but it won't be able to because they decided they only wanted to see Hearthstone news. One workaround I had considered for this problem is we'll inject major announcements (flagging articles them as such) into the homepage feed no matter what, but this would only be confusing to people.
I see pros and cons on both sides of it. Ultimately though, I do think leaving the choice in the hands of everyone is a good idea. You're all smart enough to decide what you want to see and on the very tiny chance you visit the homepage and don't get to see that Wizards is giving everyone a bunch of free stuff because you only want to see Hearthstone content, that was that person's choice to make.
No ETA on news on the homepage changes, but decks are arriving very soon.
Updated with all English images.
Sorry, but we only allow posts in English on Out of Cards. Locking this thread.
This has been an absolutely insane month. To think that Runeterra and Hearthstone are always going to overlap 3 times a year is a bit much :D
What don't you like about the current arena reward structure?
I believe the addition of experience which contributes to earnings in the Battle Pass might make it feel better without changing the actual structure of the Arena Rewards, though I'd love to know what you think would make Arena itself better.
Lucky for you, Aurelion Sol is in our deckbuilder so you can theorycraft!
https://outof.cards/legends-of-runeterra/deckbuilder/
Fury Mechanic Reveal
https://outof.cards/legends-of-runeterra/1788-fury-is-a-new-keyword-coming-in-call-of-the-mountain-5-new-cards-revealed
You're welcome <3
Since we've pushed out a few updates since this was last updated, I'm going to include some additional changes just so everyone is aware of them.
New Features
Hearthstone
Runeterra
Changes
Hearthstone
Runeterra
General
Bug Fixes
Hearthstone
General
Regrets
Runeterra
Yeah, he was disappointingly super late. We've now got it in our post (was AFK making and eating breakfast so I wasn't around when he finally got to uploading it)
I don't think it's fair to require "infinite" value from the Battle Pass. If the Gold progression is going to be the same as before, these packs are just icing on the cake and are definitely not the target of the players who grind out full bundles worth of gold each set. If they were to replace them with more Gold, there's less chance you're going to buy something.
At the end of the day, Hearthstone does need to sell stuff to us to remain profitable. I'd be completely on the side of "packs suck" if it wasn't for their clear messaging that nothing is changing to hurt the Gold income for F2P players. Ben Lee even said he personally made 5K gold per set and he expects to make the exact same without changing how much he played.
How so?